I called JD Vance an Eyeliner Gerbil and everybody clapped

That’s true but it’s not in the same ballpark as GPS tracking. The phone company knows what county I’m in but probably not what businesses and municipal buildings I enter on foot unlike GPS location services. Bluetooth and Wifi are also disabled when I leave the house to minimize those being used for device tracking.

It’s just good practice to disable all the unused wireless radios in your pocket computer. Don’t turn them on until you need them on. It saves a lot of battery life too.

My kids don’t even have phones, as they do not need them and they are unhealthy for the young brain’s development.

I also don’t use location services on my phones. Fuck all that tracking bullshit.

But that rug really ties the room together, man!

Nope, that is not correct. The rights remain in place and may be exercised at will.

The people are armed as well.

That’s not true, because the Constitution applies to the whole place. Americans and non-citizens freely exercise those rights in those areas daily.

If any agent of the government tells you otherwise, you must educate them and enforce the free exercise of your own rights.

1st Amendment protections on freedom of speech apply to everyone in the USA, regardless of citizenship. Frenchman should sue.

Likewise, have a great time with your fantasies of revolution or whatever.

Could it be that you just don’t want to admit that you can’t do anything about it?

As for me, I don’t have any responsibility to push onto others about it. I accept the things that cannot change, and I have adapted to survive in the environment that I live in, and things are going generally well.

So what are you gonna do about it then? In reality.

Blaming “capitalism” for all of society’s problems is about as useful as blaming God or some gremlins. For example, if you’re in the USA and you blame “capitalism” for your problems, then what are you gonna do about it? There is no path to change this society from capitalism to socialism or communism. We have entire armies of military and police who will ensure that the status quo stays in place. You also can’t vote your way out of this. No candidates advocating such changes will be elected.

The best thing we can do is aim for better regulation of the systems that have allowed for the oligarchy to take it all over. Which won’t be easy or quick at all but is at least somewhat possible.

That could possibly be true IF it were true that TikTok is the only place you can talk about that, but it’s not. Have a look around.

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Nope, I have a lot better things to do than look at a tiny handheld screen.

Your first comment was right: no phone

“9 out of 10 workers support the policy” he decided to imagine and then say out loud

Not if the app is coded properly to not include message content in the push notification. Signal uses google notifications only as a wakeup event to poll the (not google) server for the new message.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/5720

Google push notifications are available on GrapheneOS - just have to install Google Play Services. Their sandboxed version of google’s junk is nice because you can fully restrict permissions to it unlike stock Android.

Yeah a commentary video with a creator of a movie or show is real content related to the other content, not the same as a random person’s “look at me” video